At UNCSA, the two weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas are called Intensive Arts.  Generally, as you can tell by its name, it is....intense.  Everyone loves it though, because for those in the BFA program, there are no academics (finals are the...

    During my first year in NYC, I was submitting and auditioning for everything under the sun. Sacrificing my weekends for callbacks and rehearsals. There was one film that came up - the audition was in a walk-up in little Italy. It was a gay...

I recently got an email from a friend I starred opposite of in an indie short.  “I’m thinking of quitting the business,” he wrote.  One deep breath and a slow, whistling exhale later, I started thinking about how I wanted to respond.  So far...

It's Tuesday morning and I'd like to dedicate today's blog to a steadfast, hard-working, generous, talented man whom I am lucky to have as a parent, an adviser, and a friend, my Dad.  My father named me Elaine, my formal first name, after the...

I have a lovely friend in industry who is starting a headshot business geared towards new grads. As a means of starting his business, he wanted to put up samples of headshots. In the process he was learning the fine art of headshot photography using...